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him is given second hand crown, which one
of the saints wore at the start, but exchanged
I for a brighter one as he went on from glory
to glory. And he is put in an old house once
occupied by an angel who was hurled out of
heaven at the time of Satan's rebellion
Right after him comes a soul that makes
great stir among the Celestials, and the
angels rush to the scene each bringing her
dazzling coronet Who is shea Over what
realm on earth was she queenl In what great
Dusseldorf festival was she the cantatricel
Neither. She was an invalid who never left
her room for twenty years; but she was
strong in prayer, and she prayed down revi-
val after revival, and pentecost after pente-
cost, upon the churches, and with her pale
hands she knit many mltten or tippet for
the poor, and with her contrivances
she added joy to many a holiday
festival, and now, with those thin hands
50 strong for kindness, and with those white
lips so strong for supplication, she has won
coronation, and enthronement, and jubilee.
And Christ says to the angels who have
brought each crown for the gloriied in
valid: "No, not these; they are not good
enough. But in the jeweled vase at the right
hand side of my throne there is one that
have been preparing for her many year,
and for her every pang have set an anne
thyst and for her every good deed have set
pearl. Fetch it now and fulfill the promise
gave her long ago in the sick room: BE
thou faithful unto death and will give thee
a crown >"
But notice that there is only one being in
the universe who can and will distribute the
trophies of eaSth and heaven 1t is the di-
vine ruler, the commander in chief Of the CEN
turtles, the champion of the ages, the univer-
sal conquerer, the son of God, Jesus You
will take the spoils from his hand, or never
take them at all Have his friendship and
you may defy all time and all eternity; but
without it you were pauper, though
| you had universe at your COM
mand. We are told in Revelation that
Jacobs twelve sons were so honored as to
have the twelve gates Of heaven named after
them-over one gate of heaven Naphtali,
over another gate of heaven IsSachar, over
another Dan, over another Cad, over another
Zebulon, over another Judah, and so on. But
ChriSt's name is written over all the gates,
and on every panel of the gates, and have His
help, His pardon, His intercession, His atone
ment must, or be a forlorn wretch forever.
My Lord and my God make me and all who
hear me this day, and all to whom these
words shall come, be Thy repentant, believ-
ing, sworn, consecrated and ransomed fol
| lowers forever.
What day it viii bel This entire assem-
blage would rise TO your feet if you could
realize it, the day in which Christ shall in
fulfllment of my text divide the spoil It
was great day when Queen Victoria, in the
midst of tho Crimean war, distributed medals
10 the soldiers who had come home sick and
wounded At the Horse Guards, in presence
of the royal family, the injured men were
| carried in or came on crutches-Col. Trow-
bridge who lost both feet at Inkerman; and
| Can't. Saver, who hld the ankle joint Of his
right leg shot of at Alma; and capt. Currie,
! his disabled limb supported by a soldier, and
others manned and disfgured. and exhausted
and with her own hand the queen gave
! each the Crimean medal And what
| triumphant days for those soldiers when,
| further on, they received the French medal
with the imperial eagle, and the Turkish
medal with its representation of four flags
France, Turkey, England and Sardinia-and
-
| gun wheel.
And what rewards are suggested to all
readers of history by the mere mention Of the
Waterloo medal, and the Cape medal, and the
Gold Cross medal, and the medal struck for
bravery in our American war. But how in
significant all these compared with the day
| when the good soldiers of Jesus Christ shall
| come in out of the battles Of this world, and
In the presence of all the piled up glories Of
the redeemed and the unfallen, Jesus, our
king, shall divide the spoil. The more
wounds, the greater the inheritance. The
longer the forced march, the more
vivid the trophy. The more terrific
| the exhaustion, the more untroubled
the transport. Not the gift of brilliant rib
bon. or medal of brass or silver or gold, but
n kingdom in which we are TO reign for ever
and ever. Mansions on the eternal hills, do
minions Of unfading power, empires of un
ending love, continents of everlasting light
Atlantic and Pacific oceans of billowing JOY
II was great day when Aureian, the
Roman emperor, came back from his victor
les. In the front Of the procession were
wild beasts from all lands, LOCO
gladiators richly clad, wagon loads of
! crowns presented by conquered cities; among
the captives, Syrians, Egyptians, Goths,
Vandals, Sarmatians, Franks; and Zsnohia,
the beautiful captive queen, on foot in chains
of gold that a slave had TO help her carry, and
Jewels under the weight of which she almost
tainted. And then came the chariot Of Au-
relian drawn by four elephants in gorgeous
caparison and followed by the Roman senate
and the Roman army, and from dawn till dark
the procession was passing. Rome in all her
history never saw anything more magnificent
But how much greater the day when our con-
| oueror. Jesus, shall ride under tho triumphal
arches Of heaven; his captives, hand or foot
or in chariots, all the kingdoms of earth and
heaven: in procession the armies celestial on
white horses. Rambling artillery Of thunder
bolts never again to be numbered. King
doms in line centuries in line, sanity cherubic
seraphic, archangelic splendors in line, and
Christ seated on one great rolling hosanna,
made out Of all ballelujahs Of all worlds, shall
CRY haiti to the procession. And not forget
ting even the humblest in all the reach OF his
omnipresence, he shall rise, and then and
there. his work done and his glory consum-
mated. proceed, amid an ccstacy such as
neither mortal nor immortal ever imagined,
TO divide the spoil.
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